'Beginning' in the Bible

But seeing the wind, he became frightened, and beginning to sink, he cried out, “Lord, save me!”

And He answered and said, “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female,

He *said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way.

“When evening came, the owner of the vineyard *said to his foreman, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last group to the first.’

But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.

For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will.